, 1887-01-13
With Our Exchanges

ere recently discovered at Stamped"
pees revealed $500 silver per ion
Tic Tac5luu Mil Co. at Tacoma,
Is getting cut the timber Tor three
ships. to rp built at San Francisco
There IS big demand for San
Juan lime. The output OF 600 bar
rels day does not meet the demand.
An Illinois calf has four eyes, four
ears. and Two mouths. Its owner
calls it "HugEump." Ii is freak OF
nature.
The Tacoma mill. during the year
1856. cut 53,uU000O feet Of lumber,
which Wa shipped to all points Of
the globe.
Including postmasters and every
other branch of the service, there are
532 federal otiiceholders in Washing-
ton Territory.
Two thousand two hundred and
eighty beef cattle, I6,340 mutton
sheep. and $50 hores were moved
from Washington Territory in 1856.
Tie log drive last week on the Sno-
homish river aggregated 1.GJ0,GOJ
feet. Of which 6,U0OU0D were from the
Skykomisn and 5,O00,G00 from tie
Suoqualmie.
Fifteen ears containing 1900 bales,
or about 2lO 900 pounds Of hops, were
shipped from North Yakima TO the
east during 1856, realizing nearly fifty
thousand dollars.
The selection by the republican eau
Gus, OF IT, Nevada Legislature, OF eX-
Senator Stewart to be United States
senator again, brings into power one
Of the able7t champions Of the silver
dollar the government has ever had.
The Tacoma Mil company has 6,
500, 900 feet of logs at the mouth OF
the Skagit river ready to be tOwad
to the mill High water favored the
lOggCrs this year, and all of the sea-
sons cut has been tioated down to
salt water.
Ben Stretch, the old sheriff Of Sho
homish county, has been proven
defauter in the sum OF S455 81, Oh
account OF taxes collected and not
returned, sud on giving his note for
the same, the suit by the county to
recover was dismissed st court last
week.
The commissioner OF the general
land Office has rendered decision
declaring Illegal all claims filed on
restored lands IN Washington Terri
tory prior to December Is, 1856, and
canceiiny all timber culture entries
made #ithin those limits before that
date.
Mr. Jordan was lying on the track
of the Northern Pacific railroad at
Tacoma, and he barely had time by
standing on his head against an en-
bankment to get out of the way when
the engine took of the south part of
his pants as he was going north, and
Jordan wants new pair at the com
pany's expense.
During the year 1885 there were
upwards Of $4,000 immigrants ar
rived in the United States, and during
the past year 365,O00. AT this rate it
is easy to explain the cause of the
territories filling up SO rapidly.
What, with foreigners and home
seekers from the crowded east, every
fertile hill and valley of the west will
be thickly populated.
Speaking OF the Willard scrip" the
Philadelphia Record remarks: The
! Nror-4 a,,, D,c;Eo E, I,,,,oo1 S,Y, ,cnOr,T
of the continued increase of earnings,
as shown by the returns for the third
week in Decemter 1t is now fore
gone conclusion that the month will
earn lis proportion of fixed charges,
which VIII leave the company with
about sL,001,00O surplus for the traffic
for the first six .nCnths of its fiscal
year
Logan WIS on: of the senate only
two years During that tina all of
his enemies, and lie had plenty of
them, thought they had Logan down.
He was never mere sensitive than
during this period Of enforced retire
ment. The friends who stood by him
at that time he never forgot. He
seemed TO remember longer consider
alton shown him when he was cut of
power than any kindness paid him
before or after that time.
Samuel Cox tells the New York
Herald that next to the tariff question
the coast defences question is the
most important before congress. Mr..
Cox will do more toward alleviating
the distresses of labor 10y bending his
energies to this task than in feeble
opposition TO Il protective tariff. The
surplus revenue of the country could
pot be better expended, and the agi-
tatlon of building up navy would
be q most healthful sign, in these
piping times of peace, when a wise
craftsmanship always prepares for
possible war.-Segt.le Press.
Chicago Tribune, Dec. 2Sth. Henry
Crawford, the Chicago attorney who
is prominent in the Wabash case,
returned yesterday from a trip to
Puget Sound in the interest of New
York men who are desirous of pur-
chasing railroad aud mining property
IN that vicinity. AIR Crawford said
last evening that the country there
Was very attractive. Roses. were in
bloom in the open air when he left,
though the latitude was 500 miles
further north than that of Chicago,
while west of St. Paul the snow was
deep and the mecHry down to 36 de-
grees below zero"
German, sent more people to the
United States during the year 1886
than any other country. Her total
was nearly $4,000. England was
next, with about $4,000; then Ireland
with $4,000; then Sweden and Nor
way with nearly $4,000; then Russia
with over 30,000, and then Italy with
nearly $1,000. Scutland sent about
1000 ireland used to send many
more than England and Scotland
together; but now England and Scot
land together send 80 per cent more
than Ireland And besides, of Eng
lish and Scotch. many norc came
into the United States from Canada
or through Canada.
The death of General Logan leaves
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